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Also known as: "How to raise boys who hate their parents". Possibly also "boys who are shunned at school", since they won't be able to take part in a huge fract
by hugh3 16y ago
Also known as: "How to raise boys who hate their parents". Possibly also "boys who are shunned at school", since they won't be able to take part in a huge fraction of the conversations going on in the playground.
The best way to raise children with good habits is to have those habits yourself. If every day after dinner both parents retire to the lounge room to listen to some music and read a book (each), the children will quickly get the idea that's what people do. If they go and watch TV instead, they'll get that idea.
One more point: childhood habits don't always bleed over into the adult. From age 13-17 I probably barely read a single novel that wasn't assigned for school. (I read plenty of non-fiction for pleasure.) But once reading novels stopped being "schoolwork" I started doing it for pleasure, and have since read... a lot.
- jacobolus 16y agoOh give me a break. Not playing video games and reading lots of books growing up never made me shunned on the playground and never made me hate my parents (and I’ve never heard anyone say they hate their parents for video-game deprivation). Playgrounds are for running around, kicking things, messily digging in the dirt, and generally making mischief, not analyzing video games.
- willydix 16y agoWhen was the last time you were on a playground? Let's assume you're only in your 20s, it's been almost a decade. Perhaps you don't know exactly what is happening on the playground. Not that I do either.
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- nollidge 16y agoSwear on my life, I love my parents for video-game deprivation.
- jerf 16y ago'Possibly also "boys who are shunned at school", since they won't be able to take part in a huge fraction of the conversations going on in the playground.' If the environment is that toxic and hostile to spending time wisely, perhaps your children should not spend so much time in it.
- fogus 16y ago> "boys who are shunned at school" Oh boy, where to begin? OK, let's get the kids the video games and let them watch the TV shows. Hopefully they are wearing the right jeans. That's OK, we'll buy those too. Hopefully they have the right hair style. That's cool, there's a Hair Cuttery right down the road. Hopefully they are good at sports. That's OK, we can hire a personal trainer. Hopefully they are not too ugly because all of this other stuff will be moot.
- ryanwaggoner 16y agoRepost of a comment I made a few days ago: Excuse my language, but give me a fucking break. I was a teenager not that long ago, my siblings are in their teens, and I know other teens who have zero interest in video games. Aside from the fact that I think the claim of impending ostracization for non-gamers is bullshit, if your friends shun you because you don't play 20 hours of video games a week, get some new friends. You could easily make the same arguments for drugs and promiscuous sex, which I understand are popular among some groups of teenagers. I'm sure there's a lot of people that would argue that it's a "huge social disadvantage" to not being into sports, but I've lived in many places were sports seemed to be all most people cared about and I managed to maintain plenty of rich friendships, despite not giving two shits about any professional sports. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1707083 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1707083
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- hugh3 16y agoI was talking more about TV than video games, actually. I don't know where everybody got the video games idea from. Also I was talking in the six-to-eleven-year-old age group.
- run4yourlives 16y agoPossibly also "boys who are shunned at school", If this is a measure of success when evaluating your parenting, you are doing it wrong.